Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-06-11
JESS.
byH H.NpER HAGGARDs
Nuhorot'Nas solouo1saures sshSEIe.


Euh'r't'Nas solonoEsaupes ShcEls.
He got up and left her, for he had to get
home, saying as he did 90 that he thought
there was a storm coming up, the air was so
quiet and the wind had fallen as it does be-
fore an African tempest, and presently, on
looking round, she saw him slowly climbing
the precipitous ascent to the table land above.
1t was a glorious afternoon, such as one
sometimes gets in the African spring, although
II was so intensely still. Everywhere were
the proofs and evidences Of life: The winter
was over, and now, from tho sadIiess and
steriiity of its witaered age, sprang young and
lovely summer, clad In sunshine, be-diamoned
with dew and fragrant with the breath of
flowers. Jess lay back and looked up into the
infinite depths above. How blue they were,
and how measurelessI She could not see the
angry clouds that lay like visible omens on
the horizon. See there, miles above her, was
one tiny circling speck. 1t was vulture,
watching her from its airy heights and de-
scending a little to see il she were dead or only
sleeping.
Involuntarily she shuddered The bird of
death reminded her of Death himself, also
hanging high up there in the blue and wait
ing his opportunity TO fall upon the sleeper.
Then her eyes fell upon bough Of the glori-
Gus Towering bush under which she lay. II
was not more than four feet above her head,
but she was so still and motionless that
jeweled honeysucker came and lowered over
the flowers, darting from one to another like
q many colored fash. Thence her glance
Travelled to the great column Of powders that
lowered up above her and that seemed to say,
II am very old. have seen many springs
and many winters, and have looked down on
many sleeping maids, and where are they
nowl All dead-all dead, and an old baboon
in the rocks with startling suddenness barked
out "all deadn in answer
And as she lay and heard, her youthful
blood, drawn by natures magnetic force, as
the moon draws the tide, rose in her veins
like the sap In the budding trees, and stirred
her virginia. serenity. All the bodily natural
part of her caught the tones of natures happy
voice that bade her break her bands, live and
love, and be a woman. And lol the spirit
within her answered to it and flung wide her
bosom's doors, and of sudden as 1t were,
something quckened and lived in her heart
that was of her and yet had its own life-a
life apart; something that sprang from her
and another, and that would always be with
her now and could never die; and she rose
pale and trembling, as q woman trembles at
the first stirring of the child that she shall
bear, and clung to the flowery bough of the
beautiful bush above and then sank down
again, feeling the spirit OF her girlhood had
departed from her, and that another angel
had entered there; knew that she loved with
heart and soul and body, and was very
woman.
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